Paxtyn is an undergraduate student at Northeastern University pursuing a degree in journalism and data science. She hopes to make a career as a data reporter and has worked for Northeastern's Storybench and the Puget Sound Business Journal. She is the multimedia manager of the Huntington News, the independent student newspaper of the Northeastern community, and previously served as its editor-in-chief. In Greece, Spain and Cuba, she reported on topics ranging from religion to refugee housing.